Poem: WE REAL COOL by Gwendolyn Brooks

 

 

Photograph of Gwendolyn Brooks

 

We Real Cool

The Pool Players.

Seven at the Golden Shovel.

 

We real cool.  We

Left school.  We

 

Lurk late.  We

Strike straight.  We

 

Sing sin.  We

Thin gin.  We

 

Jazz June.  We

Die Soon.